Quotes by Will Durant
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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